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and these are new technologies. they are great innovations that are coming down the pike. we need to address those. we need to move forward. i came here to talk about reasonable fiscal solutions. we just heard a debate, a good debate about the effects of sequestration. we know we have challenges. on both sides of the aisle there is a sense of purpose to change the trajectory of this debt. we are spending -- we are borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend. we have a national debt that is almost equal to our gross domestic product. we have interest payments that are the third-highest payment that we make here, and that's at a time of record-low interest rates. this is unsustainable, and it needs to be addressed but i think it needs to be addressed responsibly. and so, like many of you, i have my own personal passions, and they involve senior citizens, making sure that we provide them with a secure future. but also a secure future for future senio senior citizens. veterans care deeply about the condition of veterans benefits and what we're going to do to reward and thank -
and these are new technologies. they are great innovations that are coming down the pike. we need to address those. we need to move forward. i came here to talk about reasonable fiscal solutions. we just heard a debate, a good debate about the effects of sequestration. we know we have challenges. on both sides of the aisle there is a sense of purpose to change the trajectory of this debt. we are spending -- we are borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend. we have a national debt that is...
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combination technologies will be very, very critical. so those are a few thoughts about how we pursue our mission today. that may wrap up coming back to our core object days. darpa subject to this a new generation of technology for national security. so what might the military capability of the future look like? today we are building a future in which war fighters can use cybertools as tactical weapons fully integrated in the kinetic site. we are building a new generation of electronic warfare that will deprive what others around the world do with globally available technology. they're also building a new suite of technology for position navigation and timing to people and platforms will continue to be dangerously reliant on gps as they are today. if you look across programs, we also built new approaches to space and robotics to advance platforms, weapons systems underneath all of that, we are building a new foundation of emerging technologies and software to let trot nixon materials, but also new technologies that emerge from the biolog
combination technologies will be very, very critical. so those are a few thoughts about how we pursue our mission today. that may wrap up coming back to our core object days. darpa subject to this a new generation of technology for national security. so what might the military capability of the future look like? today we are building a future in which war fighters can use cybertools as tactical weapons fully integrated in the kinetic site. we are building a new generation of electronic warfare...
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this bill violates that bake principle of technology -- that basic principle of technology. it will do no harm. and i urge my colleagues to oppose it and its premature consideration by the senate. mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. baucus: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from montana. mr. baucus: mr. president, i rise today to urge the senate not to move forward on the marketplace fairness act. this bill country to sp tend resources theysh be usis jumping through new bureaucratic hoops. in montana, it forces our small businesses to play tax collector for other states, with absolutely no benefit to them. instead of slapping more red tape on our small businesses, we need to be supporting their tworbg create jobs and -- work to create jobs and get our economy going. let me be very clear -- let me be even more clear. let me be very clear: this bill is bad for business and bad for jobs. this bill is not ready for debate on the senate floor. it has not been completely thought through. it is full of unintended consequences that could seriously harm america's sm
this bill violates that bake principle of technology -- that basic principle of technology. it will do no harm. and i urge my colleagues to oppose it and its premature consideration by the senate. mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. baucus: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from montana. mr. baucus: mr. president, i rise today to urge the senate not to move forward on the marketplace fairness act. this bill country to sp tend resources theysh be usis jumping through new...
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the best technology, the best procedures. but if your people are not trained or your customers are not trained, so the financial industry sees its customers as part of the broader ecosystem. not only are we trying to protect them, but we're trying to educate our customers day-to-day on our web sites, etc., on how they can protect themselves. and that's really a key part of it. yes, there are insiders who are malicious, but a lot of the cyber attacks can be prevented if only your employees had as a matter of habit the knowledge that you don't click on that e-mail that you don't recognize, that you don't open the attachment, that you don't recognize. if it looks suspicious, pass it on to your security team. those are some of the most element always of preventing cyber attack. and it is one of the biggest hurdles we have to get over. >> guest: and some nation security agency and the dense department companiesyou know, have been, had breaches with respect to thumb drives being brought into their system. >> guest: yep. >> guest: i
the best technology, the best procedures. but if your people are not trained or your customers are not trained, so the financial industry sees its customers as part of the broader ecosystem. not only are we trying to protect them, but we're trying to educate our customers day-to-day on our web sites, etc., on how they can protect themselves. and that's really a key part of it. yes, there are insiders who are malicious, but a lot of the cyber attacks can be prevented if only your employees had...
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. >> gautham nagesh technology reporter for cq roll call with the update on the internet bill. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> further debate on the internet sales tax bill happening this afternoon when the senate returns from recess at 2:15 eastern. live coverage here on c-span 2. we have a facebook question on the internet sales tax. internet sales tax support or oppose and why? dozens are weighing in. sheri says i support taxing internet sales although i hate paying tax on anything. if we must be taxed on whatever we buy regularly why wouldn't the same hold true with internet sales. jerry writes, he opposes it. a big indication it's a bad idea both amazon and wal-mart support it. why would you think that would be? taxes and regulations favor big retailers because they can cover the higher overhead where smaller businesses typically can not. and rich says, a state should not be allowed to tax people they do not represent. sound familiar? you can offer your comments at facebook.com/cspan. we might use some of your remarks on the air. live now, to the i
. >> gautham nagesh technology reporter for cq roll call with the update on the internet bill. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> further debate on the internet sales tax bill happening this afternoon when the senate returns from recess at 2:15 eastern. live coverage here on c-span 2. we have a facebook question on the internet sales tax. internet sales tax support or oppose and why? dozens are weighing in. sheri says i support taxing internet sales...
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we established two principles with respect to technology policy. one, we said let's ensure that there is no discrimination. what goes on off-line and what goes on online should be parallel so that we can encourage both parts of the american economy and that principle, mr. president, has made a lot of sense. in fact, it's led to a great many stores, i'm sure at home in indiana for the president of the senate, it's meant there's a lot of stores with bricks and clicks. and, in fact, they look to try and have a vigorous preps in both states because the two are mutually reinforcing. and to do that you've got to ensure that there is a policy of nondiscrimination. and what i have done is outlined very specifically about how the marketplace fairness act moves away from that principle of nondiscrimination by giving in many jurisdictions these brick and mortar retailers a leg up. what i am in favor of is continuing that policy which has made sense for 15 years. and then we talked about doing no harm and ensuring that especially we promoted voluntary approach
we established two principles with respect to technology policy. one, we said let's ensure that there is no discrimination. what goes on off-line and what goes on online should be parallel so that we can encourage both parts of the american economy and that principle, mr. president, has made a lot of sense. in fact, it's led to a great many stores, i'm sure at home in indiana for the president of the senate, it's meant there's a lot of stores with bricks and clicks. and, in fact, they look to...
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. >> caller: the standards and technology. the agency tasked with buildis fail -- >> host three mike. do you have ollowup question? we undd whe you are going. >> caller: sample -- >> host: we'll see what the senator has to say about that. 9/11 conspiracy theories and different ways of looking at 9/11. what are your thoughts? >> guest: you know, the report that i go by is 9/11 commission frankly, many of the recommendations and assessments have become very relevant this week as we have dealt with a shocking tragedy in tbons. and, you know, actually given me this week an opportunity to reflect on how far we have come, for example, with homeland security in the ten years since that agency was created. as you noted, i'm on the home land security and government affairs committee, and, you know, they are hard at work. the joint terrorism task force through the fbi and homeland security and local officials in boston and trying to bring answers and bring ultimately the perpetrators to bear the full weight of justice in the united stat
. >> caller: the standards and technology. the agency tasked with buildis fail -- >> host three mike. do you have ollowup question? we undd whe you are going. >> caller: sample -- >> host: we'll see what the senator has to say about that. 9/11 conspiracy theories and different ways of looking at 9/11. what are your thoughts? >> guest: you know, the report that i go by is 9/11 commission frankly, many of the recommendations and assessments have become very relevant...
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. >> technology reporter joins us from capitol hill. what's the purpose of the senate interpret sales tax bill? >> well, this legislation would allow states to require that online retailers charge sales tax collect, and remit them when consumers make a purchase op line. that includes retailers not within their own state. >> what are some of the bill supporters, and why did some say it levels the player field for retailers? >> well, the bill supports, incoming the big retailers, walmart, best buy, amazon.com, online retailers also, say brick and mortar retailers are at a disadvantage charging sales tax and online doesn't. consumers are supposed to pay the taxes on their tax return, but studies show that most don't so in effect online goods get that 6% to 10% on average discount on goods. >> what about the opponents of the bill, who do we hear from and what are the arguments against the bill? >> the strongest opposition is from those states where they don't charge a sales tax because they contend retailers would have to have a burden to c
. >> technology reporter joins us from capitol hill. what's the purpose of the senate interpret sales tax bill? >> well, this legislation would allow states to require that online retailers charge sales tax collect, and remit them when consumers make a purchase op line. that includes retailers not within their own state. >> what are some of the bill supporters, and why did some say it levels the player field for retailers? >> well, the bill supports, incoming the big...
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its biggest competition is technology. technology is changing rapidly and the postal service is not able to make those changes in a very nimble and quick fashion. so we believe these are the type of changes that ought to be y theongress, and it's very important for the gislatcosequences both for the postal service, the american people and the finances of that entity as well since thank you. i am happy to entertain questions at the appropriate time. >> good morning, chairman, ranking member cummings and members of the committee. i serve as the chairman of the board of governors of the united states postal service. i honored to be asked to testify and thank you for inviting me today. the postal service plays an incredible role in the american economy it provides a national platform that every business and president relies on in the directly supports and 800 billion-dollar manning industry that employs 8 million people. america needs a financially healthy postal service. it needs a service that can adapt to changes and techno
its biggest competition is technology. technology is changing rapidly and the postal service is not able to make those changes in a very nimble and quick fashion. so we believe these are the type of changes that ought to be y theongress, and it's very important for the gislatcosequences both for the postal service, the american people and the finances of that entity as well since thank you. i am happy to entertain questions at the appropriate time. >> good morning, chairman, ranking...
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i remember our experiences with nan owe technology. -- nanotechnology and i just want to say i'm going to have to object at this time but i'm very interested in working with you, with senator durbin, with senator blunt, who was just here, to try to come up with an arrangement that goes to the heart of this question. and that is, should states like oregon be coerced, required to collect these online taxes for states that are thousands of miles away? and the refrain throughout this whole discussion has really been this is a states' rights bill. and i respect that. but what it really translates is folks say they're for states' rights if they think the state is right. and the state is willing to go along with this particular approach that's come out of washington, d.c., which is they would be coerced into collecting these sales taxes for jurisdictions from thousands of miles away. and in some cases, new hampshire and others places have been making this point as well, it would be discriminatory because the online sector would be subjected to requirements that were not available -- were not
i remember our experiences with nan owe technology. -- nanotechnology and i just want to say i'm going to have to object at this time but i'm very interested in working with you, with senator durbin, with senator blunt, who was just here, to try to come up with an arrangement that goes to the heart of this question. and that is, should states like oregon be coerced, required to collect these online taxes for states that are thousands of miles away? and the refrain throughout this whole...
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online market may now exceed gun shows in terms of sales volume, and we all know how we're using our technology more and more every day for our personal lives and how we defend on it. for example, the national shooting sports foundation surveyed owners of modern sporting rifles in 2010 and found that 10% of them, 10% of all rifles sold had purchased their firearms at gun shows, whereas 25% had purchased them online. 25%. believe me, i understand the political stakes for my colleagues and i sympathize. i have been there. i understand it. and comes from states like west virginia, and no state has a higher regard for the second amendment rights to bear arms than my state. in fact, on the great seal of the state of west virginia, the preamble is montani sember liberai. in latin, that means mountaineers are always free. you know how we feel. one of the review states that became a state during the civil war, broke away from virginia at that time. but west virginians are also guided by a little common sense. i have said this. in west virginia, we know what nonsense is, we know what common sense is, an
online market may now exceed gun shows in terms of sales volume, and we all know how we're using our technology more and more every day for our personal lives and how we defend on it. for example, the national shooting sports foundation surveyed owners of modern sporting rifles in 2010 and found that 10% of them, 10% of all rifles sold had purchased their firearms at gun shows, whereas 25% had purchased them online. 25%. believe me, i understand the political stakes for my colleagues and i...
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helped -- when they did their study they found out they needed to replace older security equipment and technology, expand restricted we keyway system ems and place security levers on all doors which allowed teachers to lock tours doors from the inside. you may say that's not expensive. why do you need to spend money? it sure adds up when you really want to secure a door and you want to do it right. so if you have many, many doors so we can help them do these things. and if they wanted to, make sure they harden their facility, that's what the money is for. now, there's a township in new jersey, they used funds to secure perimeter and playground areas by installing security gates at elementary and intermediate schools to create a safer learning environment. the new exterior fences define school boundaries making the schools safer for students. entourier gates were replaced, providing the ability to lock off specific areas of the schools during emergencies. again, it's common sense but when these schools were built, madam president, no one thought about this. everything was open. like the capitol, w
helped -- when they did their study they found out they needed to replace older security equipment and technology, expand restricted we keyway system ems and place security levers on all doors which allowed teachers to lock tours doors from the inside. you may say that's not expensive. why do you need to spend money? it sure adds up when you really want to secure a door and you want to do it right. so if you have many, many doors so we can help them do these things. and if they wanted to, make...
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i tried to pass the stand these a, science and technology these is expanding those. i tried to pass it by unanimous consent. than schumer came up and said no, but i will pass, how about passing mind by unanimous consent? i was quite. i would've let this go by unanimous consent. they would have been shocked. i think it would've been great fun to see that all of the week as part of immigration reform just by unanimous consent. >> jerry? >> i have a couple of them. i had ask you why you think so highly of our late mayor, grover cleveland? >> f. i was allowed to go back when i wasn't alive, he seemed to be opposed to special interests. he also seemed to veto a bunch of bills, and i think that, you know, it was a time period, and i think some would call him a populist and i think that part of me feels that way. >> alex and then bolton. >> it was reported you were raising money for the national association for gun rights and it was just reported that last week this came up for conversation in the steering committee luncheon. susan collins was pretty upset about that becaus
i tried to pass the stand these a, science and technology these is expanding those. i tried to pass it by unanimous consent. than schumer came up and said no, but i will pass, how about passing mind by unanimous consent? i was quite. i would've let this go by unanimous consent. they would have been shocked. i think it would've been great fun to see that all of the week as part of immigration reform just by unanimous consent. >> jerry? >> i have a couple of them. i had ask you why...
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our students and support the kind of research that is necessary to develop new means and possibly new technology, new tools that are institutions of higher learning but institutions of learning across the board, beginning with our elementary schools need to do better. and i am proud to be a cosponsor of this legislation. i look forward to working with my colleagues to assuring that it will be passed. and senator kaine, who spoke so evocatively and eloquently on this floor today and who showed such grace under pressure, which is one of the definitions of courage, in responding to the virginia tech tragedy, he has worked to deal with the wounds, and he has resolved to learn from virginia tech. and indeed he worked as a governor to seek safer campuses across virginia and across the country. he fought to put in place commonsense laws that were -- would prevent shooters like cho seung-hui from having access to the arsenal that he used six years ago. and i want to thank senator kaine for helping to lead the effort for a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines like the ones used at virginia tech and
our students and support the kind of research that is necessary to develop new means and possibly new technology, new tools that are institutions of higher learning but institutions of learning across the board, beginning with our elementary schools need to do better. and i am proud to be a cosponsor of this legislation. i look forward to working with my colleagues to assuring that it will be passed. and senator kaine, who spoke so evocatively and eloquently on this floor today and who showed...